I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off.

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me, there's a truth in your heart that says you'll never leave me, and the touch of your hand says you'll catch me whenever I fall.

I think that people respond to honesty in music, so I only choose songs that are the truth for me.

That's what I love. Not being interrupted, sitting in a car by myself and listening to music in the rain. There are so many great songs yet to sing

The grand old lady of bluegrass? Well, wouldn't that be a wonderful title to have? I hope I do enough to earn it some day

If you don't know what makes green, you're going to try every color combination.

Lyrics are kind of the whole thing; it's the message. Something might have a beautiful melody but if it's not the truth coming out of your mouth, it's not appealing

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

Growing up I used to love bands like Free and ELO and the Rolling Stones. When Robert Plant got in touch it made perfect sense to me.

I'm much better at fixing or changing a melody to suit me than I would a lyric. But for me, everything is lyric. It has to be true for me to say it.

Whenever I've chosen a song because it's clever, it's always turned out to be a mistake.

There's still a thousand places I haven't gone to die.

People don’t remember lessons. They remember stories.

A trustee is held to something stricter than the morals of the market place. Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.

John F. Kennedy asked us what we could do for America. This Democratic Party asks what can government give you. Don't worry about paying the bill, it's on your kids and grandkids.

You can call me a fat, balding, talentless old queen who can't sing, but you can't tell lies about me.

The longest suicide note in history.

I was a late bloomer. I'm not one of those girls who's like, "I love my body! Hey, everybody, come look at my body!

I didn't have any career design. I was not thinking about publishing or doing a record. I was just working. I was evolving. I wanted to really comprehend what I was doing before stepping too far out.

There's no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor's yard.